Kim Yoonhee

キムユンヒ | Kim Yoonhee

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Associate Professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://sites.google.com/m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/envhealth

Research field (1)： Hygiene and public health (non-laboratory)

Research keywords (5)： Environmental Health , Epidemiology , Climate Change , Air Pollution , Suicide

Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：

2024 - 2027 Global Perspectives of the Short-term Association between Suicide and Nighttime Excess Heat during Tropical Nights
2019 - 2024 グローバルな視点からみた大気環境的要素による自殺リスクの影響評価のための疫学研究
2019 - 2023 Global Perspectives of Spatial and Temporal Variations in Seasonality of Suicide and Temperature-Suicide Association
2019 - 2022 地球温暖化による過剰死亡推定-多国間共同環境疫学研究
2016 - 2019 Global Perspectives of Seasonal Changes of Suicide and Associations between Suicide and Weather

Papers (94)：

Jo Kato, Kosuke Kiyohara, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Mamoru Ayusawa, Taku Iwami, Yoonhee Kim, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Yasushi Honda. Risks of ambient temperature in sudden cardiac arrest during exercise among school children and adolescents. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. 2025
Kazuha Nakamura, Akira Okada, Hideaki Watanabe, Kazutaka Oka, Yasushi Honda, Hiroki Matsui, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hideo Yasunaga, Yoonhee Kim. In-hospital mortality of heat-related disease associated with wet bulb globe temperature: a Japanese nationwide inpatient data analysis. International Journal of Biometeorology. 2025
Tzu Tung Chen, Yoonhee Kim, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Jerker Jarsjö, Jenny C Hesson, Hans W Linderholm. Climate and malaria: modeling non-linear dynamics in the Nordic countries during the 18th and 19th centuries. Scandinavian journal of public health. 2025. 53. 2. 162-171
Jinyu He, Lina Madaniyazi, Paul L C Chua, Yoonhee Kim, Ai Milojevic, Kazutaka Oka, Yasushi Honda, Masahiro Hashizume. Impact of the urban heat island on heat-related mortality in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan. Environmental Research: Health. 2025
Ramita Thawonmas, Yoonhee Kim, Masahiro Hashizume. Ambient Temperature and Suicide Risk in Thailand: Evidence from Chiang Mai and Bangkok Provinces. Environment and Health. 2025

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Lectures and oral presentations (40)：

Enhancing Health Resilience in Japan in a Changing Climate
(ISEE-AWPC & ISES-AC Joint Conference 2024 2024)
Health risks and adaptation to heat exposure in cities
(SDGs symposium 2024 - Planetary Health for Sustainability: Towards transformative solutions for a Healthy Planet 2024)
Health impacts of climate change and adaptation measures on heat-related risks in Japan
(World Health City Forum (WHCF) 2023)
Enhancing Health Resilience in Japan in a Changing Climate
(The Launch Event of Climate Change and Health Adaptations in the Western Pacific Region 2023)
Spatiotemporal variations of the short-term association between ambient particulate matter and suicide in Finland: a nationwide epidemiological study.
(Conference on Connecting Health & Climate Change (ENBEL) 2023)

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Education (3)：

Professional career (1)：

Work history (7)：

2018/04 - 現在 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine Associate Professor
2024/09 - 2025/08 WHO-WMO Joint Office for Climate and Health, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland Visiting Scholar
2015/12 - 2018/03 Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine Assistant Professor
2014/06 - 2015/11 Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow
2013/09 - 2014/05 Seoul National University College of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine Postdoctoral Fellow

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Awards (5)：

2024 - UTokyo Global Activity Support Program for Young Researchers
2019 - Asian Universities Alliance AUA Scholars Award
2019 - University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo Excellent Young Researcher
2013 - The Korean Society of Graduate School of Public Health Outstanding Presentation Award
2011 - Korean Forum for Climate Change & Health Best Paper Award

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